Ray Tracing in Pure CMake

Ray Tracing in pure CMake Dec 27, 2020 • 9 minute read • Graphics Without further ado, I present: a basic whitted ray tracer, complete with multicore rendering, written in 100% pure CMake. If you don't care about the details, and just want to see the code, you can find it here. Rendered in 7m23s on a i5-10210U, 8 processes

A screenshot of a web article titled “Ray Tracing in pure CMake,” showing a colorful ray-traced sphere rendered on a checkerboard floor. The joke is the absurdity of implementing a ray tracer entirely in CMake, a build-system language, with the painfully long render time making the overengineered project even funnier. It is shared as a reaction to excessive programming experimentation, pointless technical complexity, or proudly terrible engineering decisions.

• @ithueti / 3527 2021-01-12